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Southwest Airlines has grounded 79 (not 81 as was previously reported) of its Boeing 737s as it began working with Boeing and the NTSB to determine the cause of a “depressurization event” during a flight from Phoenix to Sacramento on Friday afternoon. The airplane diverted to Yuma, Ariz., for an emergency landing at 5:07 p.m. local time after a hole...
morePratt & Whitney has landed one of the largest engine orders “in recent aviation history” with IndiGo’s selection of the PurePower PW1100G to power its fleet of 150 Airbus A320neos, the engine manufacturer announced this morning. Although neither the Indian low-fare airline nor Airbus has announced a conversion of the MOU covering the 150 airplanes, Pratt &...
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The DOT expects to issue a final rule designed to bolster consumer protections against ramp delays of more than three hours and expand other passenger rights initiatives this month, a department spokesman told AIN. The new rule would add several new dimensions to the so-called tarmac delay rule, enacted last April 29, including expanding its scope to...
moreInvestigators suspect a faulty airspeed indication as a possible cause of the crash of an Antonov An-148 in western Russia on March 5, killing all six people aboard, Russia’s ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The investigation team has theorized that the pilots, misled by the faulty airspeed indication, inadvertently exceeded the aircraft’s speed limit,...
moreJapan Airlines exited bankruptcy today, after the Tokyo District Court found that JAL had repaid more than two thirds of the monetary claims listed in a reorganization plan.
The airline spent 14 months in bankruptcy, during which it grounded 103 airplanes, including its entire fleet of Boeing 747s, laid off about 15,000 employees, slashed 49 routes...
moreAn Air Canada affiliate plans to launch operations from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on May 1, posing the first competition from the controversial downtown island airfield for incumbent regional carrier Porter Airlines since it launched operations in 2006.
Air Canada said last month that a new regional affiliate–Sky Regional Airlines–would operate up...
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In an all-too-predictable development, members of Congress have launched their annual attack on the Essential Air Service (EAS) program, again forcing the Regional Airline Association (RAA) to devote disproportionate energy toward defending a relatively paltry $200 million out of the more than $129 billion in transportation spending the...
moreEmbraer announced the signature of a new contract with Brazil’s Trip Airlines last month for the sale of four E190s. The firm order, valued at $172 million based on list prices, brings to 24 the number of E-Jets ordered by Trip, either from Embraer directly or through leasing companies. Embraer noted that it had included one of the four E190s sold to Trip...
moreBrazilian regional airline Azul took delivery last month of an ATR 72-200 painted in pink, in recognition of breast cancer awareness. The fourth of eight
-200 Series airplanes Azul plans to lease while it awaits delivery of its first new ATR 72-600 in October, the aircraft bears the logo of Femama, a Brazilian nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting...
moreATR announced a pair of big commercial deals involving its regional turboprops in late February, building on an exceptional showing in 2010 that saw its management lay plans to raise production from just over 50 airplanes to 70 by 2012.
On February 25 the Franco-Italian manufacturer said that Indonesia’s Lion Air and its regional subsidiary, Wings Air,...
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Multiple deadlines have passed since Embraer early last year said its Chinese joint venture would cease to exist if it couldn’t reach an agreement with its partners to build E-Jets in Harbin. Today, Harbin Embraer Aircraft remains open, but with enough work to last it until this quarter at the latest. In fact, its backlog consists of just...
moreEmbraer will decide on whether to develop a new five-abreast narrowbody aircraft some time by the end of this year, company CEO Frederico Curado said today during his company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. Curado reiterated earlier indications that he will wait for Boeing to decide on a successor to the 737NG before reaching any conclusions about a new...
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Airlines are starting to count the financial cost of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas of northeastern Japan on March 11. The International Air Transport Association has warned of a “major slowdown” for airlines operating in the Japanese market and says that this is unlikely to recover before the second half of 2011. In 2010, the value...
more![At 149 seats, the C Series will not encroach on the capacity territory dominated by the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, insisted Bombardier Commercial Airplanes president Gary Scott. [Photo: Bombardier]](https://web.archive.org/web/20110403162247im_/http://www.ainonline.com/images/at-149-seats-the-c-series-will-not-encroach-on-the-capacity-territory-dominated-by-the-airbus-a320-and-boeing-737-insisted-bombardier-commercial-airplanes-president-gary-scott-photo-bombardier-f2.jpg "At 149 seats, the C Series will not encroach on the capacity territory dominated by the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, insisted Bombardier Commercial Airplanes president Gary Scott. [Photo: Bombardier]")
Last week’s International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., set another new record this year by drawing some 1,300 attendees. As incoming president Joe Ozimek noted, ISTAT has become America’s airshow–minus any equipment parked on an airport ramp and fighter jets flying overhead at ear-shattering altitudes....
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